There is now spoon, and there was no gold announcement, but there is
this announcement
(thanks Frans) revealing that The Matrix: Path of Neo is shipping, and that
Shiny's second game based on The Matrix movies is now available in the U.S.
Here's a bit:

THE MATRIX: PATH OF NEO is the first and only Matrix game
that lets gamers take on the role of Neo and become "The One" by reliving his
most important and memorable scenarios from the blockbuster motion picture
trilogy of The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions from
Warner Bros. Pictures. THE MATRIX: PATH OF NEO is rated 'T' for Teen and is also
available for purchase at
www.thematrixpathofneo.com.

"THE MATRIX: PATH OF NEO delivers the interactive Matrix experience fans have
been waiting for -- now they can confront the challenges Neo faced and control
their own gaming outcome with new, never-before-seen story responses and a
completely new Matrix ending written and directed by the Wachowski brothers,"
said Marc Metis, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Atari, Inc. "The 'bullet
time(TM)' special effects, martial arts combat and Hollywood-style action
sequences re-created in THE MATRIX: PATH OF NEO are sure to delight long-time
franchise fans and appeal to new consumers."

I liked it too. Sure, it completely failed to live up to the hype, but it if you treat it as an action-platformer with an innovative twist, you'll probably find it enjoyable.

Shiny's been coasting on their 'reputation' for years now.

Really? If I recall correctly, Sacrifice was a great game. Messiah may not have been great, but it was certainly a good action-platformer. On the console front, Wild 9 was also a good action-platformer. However, once Shiny started doing franchise work and pumped out ETM, their good reputation was flushed down the drain. Before ETM, I never played a Shiny product I didn't enjoy.

How about that. I guess the only thing the wachowskis ARE guilty of, then, is rewriting their original endings and leaving the Matrix intact in the movie, all so they could have Monolith create what has to be the biggest MMORPG turd ever to disgrace the Internet. Good job!

The game has looked very interesting, I have to say though. But I REALLY need some good recommendations before I'll play it. Enter the Matrix looked really good too... (then again I did sorta enjoy playing the PS2 version of that.)

From what I heard, this game has a drug induced ending.Basically, right after Smiths "This is my world speech", the game stops and two terrance and phillip like versions of the wachowski brothers show up and begin talking about how they never got to do the original ending in theatres because it was too "videogame" like, but since this is a video game, they got to do it.

And then the crazyness hits the fan; all the Smiths, along with a crapton of junk, mearge into a giant Mecha-Smith, who then grabs a giant pair of sunglasses off a billboard and puts them on.

I played it for quite a bit and enjoyed the idea. However, the quirks/rough gameplay eventually drove me nuts and I just stopped playing at one point, even though I was pretty far into the game...It is still a very interesting world/idea.Posessing you and infiltrating Shiny, releasing a demo :D,Ray

Dark City and The Matrix were similar thematically, but The Matrix wasn't "stolen" from Dark City any more than it was stolen from Plato's Cave. There was a woman, though, who sued the Wachowski brothers, claiming that they had stolen her idea. Her screenplay had something to do with a third eye or something. I recall that the suit seemed frivolous and didn't appear to be going anywhere. I'm sure you can google it.

I believe more than ever that "Dark City" is one of the great modern films. It preceded "The Matrix" by a year (both films used a few of the same sets in Australia), and on a smaller budget, with special effects that owe as much to imagination as to technology, did what "The Matrix" wanted to do, earlier and with more feeling.